The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 329 Plan

"This is the information someone gave me this morning." Dumbledore picked up a stack of papers on the table and handed it to Ryan, who took the information and flipped through it page by page. He found that Harry had released a magical spark directly after Voldemort escaped yesterday, and rescuers soon found him through the traces on his wand. They also found the bodies of Barty Crouch Jr. and Peter on that island.

After reuniting with Harry, the rescuers also heard Harry's story about the castle and a little girl named Lyanna. However, everyone believed that Harry's story about a seven or eight-year-old girl fighting off Voldemort was just his hallucination.

Fortunately, Dumbledore believed Harry and was the first to arrive at the castle ruins and put out the fire. In the subsequent search, he found the account book and a lot of information left by Ryan in the basement. Soon, he and several faculty members and members of the Transylvanian Ministry of Magic who heard the news searched to rescue the prisoners. It was at this time that Ryan and his friends were found by Moody.

All the materials seized from the castle have been handed over to the Transylvanian Ministry of Magic, but Professor Dumbledore has made a copy, which contains a lot of evidence of vampires' activities in the UK.

"I think that little girl might be a wizard who drank the Polyjuice Potion, but we have never figured out why such a strong person would choose to become a child." Dumbledore said beside him as Ryan was looking at the document again.

"Maybe it's to make others lose their vigilance." Ryan would never say that it was because he was not prepared to make only this vest work. "At least most people will always be careless with children."

Dumbledore nodded in agreement with this reason. Ryan quickly read the information and said to everyone in the office: "I think I have a way to make everyone more vigilant now."

"What method?" Harry asked anxiously.

"It's very simple. Whether it's the kidnapping of three students or the illegal activities done by those people in the UK as recorded in this file, it can be proved that the dark wizards and criminal activities that disappeared after the war have begun to grow again in large numbers in the British wizarding world. In this case, as a leader of the wizarding world, Professor Dumbledore, of course you need to call on everyone to unite and maintain the stability of the British wizarding world."

"Don't we need to tell the public that the man is back?" Professor McGonagall questioned.

"No need, Professor McGonagall." Ryan shook his head. "After all, the Ministry of Magic controls the source of information for the public. When everyone is unwilling to believe that the You-Know-Who has returned and the Ministry of Magic is not cooperating, forcing this is useless and may even have a counterproductive effect. So we simply find another way to squeeze the living space of the dark wizards from another angle."

"Lian's idea is more feasible, because the news Harry brought back yesterday said that he observed that the potion that resurrected Voldemort might have a problem, which caused his body to collapse. At this time, he should find a way to make up for this problem. I guess he won't have much time to cause trouble in the wizarding world recently." Dumbledore explained simply. "In this case, if I say that Voldemort has returned recently, people may not see any attacks. Then I will become a liar in their mouths, which is not conducive to everyone's unity against Voldemort."

"Physical collapse?" Ryan and Hermione asked in unison. Dumbledore smiled and said to them, "Since you are already here, you have the right to know these things. Yes, there was a problem with the potion that Voldemort used to rebuild his body yesterday, and this was all thanks to the bottle of potion you sold to Harry, Ryan."

"What?" Ryan was a little confused. He was also an experiencer yesterday. He saw Harry and Little Barty wrestling there from a distance. He really couldn't figure out how it was related to his medicine.

"Little Barty bit my face yesterday, and then spat my blood into the cauldron." Harry explained, and Ryan finally understood why the man raised his head inexplicably yesterday. "But he bit me twice, and the first bite broke the glass bottle you gave me, so he also spat part of your potion into the pot." "So this time it was better than I thought." Dumbledore continued Harry's words, "Severus just told us that the potion used to recast the body requires very high precision. Now, due to various coincidences, too many impurities were mixed into the final materials of this potion. In addition to Harry's blood, there are also a series of potions such as dragon blood, unicorn blood, and sunlight, and even little Barty's blood and saliva."

In addition, each step of this dark magic ritual requires very precise timing and operation. And Voldemort's magic ritual not only took time in the last step, but even the most important crucible was attacked by magic. All these combined led to Voldemort not appearing in a fully recovered state after the ritual, and even worse than his original ghost state. At least at that time he could still rely on that state to be immune to attacks. Instead of having to hide everywhere with a fragile body caused by multiple mistakes now."

"And what Voldemort needs to do to save his body, which is on the verge of collapse, may be more troublesome than resurrection. You know, sometimes the process of removing impurities from the whole is even more troublesome than making a new one."

"We can just take this opportunity to organize people to hunt him down, and at the same time, follow Ryan's advice to alert everyone. Because in order to remove the impurities in his body, Voldemort needs some very precious potions and magical materials, and these things are not common. After mobilizing everyone, we can slow down his recovery by monitoring the flow of these potions."

As expected of an old man who had experienced two wizard wars, he immediately came up with the most suitable plan for the current situation. And judging from Dumbledore's expression, these plans must have been prepared for a long time.

Come to think of it, when Ryan handed him the notebook Horcrux in the second grade, Dumbledore should have expected Voldemort to come back and made corresponding preparations. And now the one who came back was a severely weakened Voldemort, which should be much better than Dumbledore thought at the time. No wonder Dumbledore showed a look of relief.

"Now I am also glad that I just had a quarrel with Fudge instead of a complete breakdown in the talks." Dumbledore said, "So now I can ask the Ministry of Magic to help monitor the abnormal flow of various magical materials."

"Are we not going to make this public?" asked Professor McGonagall.

"It will be made public, but not now." Dumbledore said: "At least now we have to hide this news like the Ministry of Magic, so as to avoid panic buying in the market and hide what we really need to pay attention to. For these more important things, I am willing to make concessions to Fudge and the Ministry of Magic."

"Then how do we tell the students?" Professor McGonagall asked again. Yesterday's alert had caused all kinds of rumors to spread throughout the school, and even foreign students knew that someone had been kidnapped. In this case, there must be a reasonable excuse to appease everyone.

"Let's say two prisoners who escaped from Azkaban tried to negotiate with the Ministry of Magic by kidnapping the champions of the Triwizard Tournament. They also contacted vampires from abroad to work with them. However, all this was stopped by a righteous wizard who passed by. The hostages have been rescued, and the two kidnappers committed suicide out of despair. At the same time, we would like to publicly express our gratitude to that unknown righteous wizard."

Old Deng was pretty good at making up lies, at least Ryan didn't find any loopholes in this passage.

Finally, Dumbledore told Harry and the other three students to keep their mouth shut and not tell anyone about Voldemort's return, and then sent them away. It is estimated that he and Professor McGonagall will arrange for the members of the Order of the Phoenix to hunt down Voldemort in the next period of time.

(End of this chapter)